Padraig Beggy, who rode out his claim at Down Royal yesterday on Mr Man In The Moon, got on the scoresheet again at the Maze today when getting Academic Accolade home by a length and a quarter in the I.T.B.A. (Northern Region) Handicap.

A third winner on the day for the stallion, Acclamation (his others were Pimlico Sound and Act Of Love Academic Accolade led inside the final furlong to beat Jeangeorges He had hit the front two and a half furlongs out.

Donal Kinsella owns and trains Academic Accolade. The five-year-old was opening his account at the eighteenth attempt and he had shown that his turn was imminent when a neck runner-up to July Days at Leopardstown last Thursday evening.